Off you go… into the purple yonder!

Maybe there’s more to my move to Massachusetts than I suspected. Check out this map comparing the GDP of US states with various countries around the world.

It’s clearly true. I think I might have to get one of these stickers:

Privacy International has released a report stating that Google’s privacy policies are “the worst on the web”, ranking it dead last in a list of “internet service companies” that includes names like Microsoft, Ebay, Last.fm, Livejournal, the BBC, Amazon, etc.
That report turns out to be rather poorly researched, and the conclusions are to be taken [...]

I got a Soekris 4801-60 for use as a firewall/gateway at one of my (very) remote setups. These things are reliable, very low power, and they have no moving parts if you boot off compact flash. They are Geode-based, so it’s x86. You can run the various flavors of BSD on them, or your favorite [...]

Scientists at a subsidiary of Boeing have published research on solar cells for electricity generation that are more than 40% effective. These are solar cells for use in concentrators, perhaps like the one in Seville, Spain, though that one of course heats water to make steam to turn a turbine. This is very exciting - [...]